Meanings of groans for in English

I stabbed wildly through and through, and got groans for payment.

My heart just aches and moans and groans for em.

The banks of the Iser to this day reverberate groans for the barbarities of Trenck.

Where is he that seeks and groans for salvation?

My friend David O'Brien is a brilliant man trapped in a body that groans for redemption.

What is "the whole creation" that groans for our resurrection?

Requires he groans for hymns, murderers for votaries, a ravaged and desolate earth for his temple?

Keep yer groans for yer own nest.

Now, then; three groans for the land syndicates, alien mortgagees, and the Western Pacific Railroad, by grabs!

Three groans for such a good dog!

At the close of the meeting there were cheers for Anderson and others and groans for Magistrate Matthews.

Then somebody proposed three groans for Old Briggs, the officer, and the crowd groaned in a most dismal manner.

The weary, sinful, suffering earth could do very well without rubies; but good women are what it sighs and groans for.

The juniors of the beaten house, deciding that it would be better not to resume hostilities, consoled themselves by giving three groans for Mr Kay.

"That's Kay's kids giving three groans for Kay," explained Silver.

"Listen not to my groans for unhappy Scotland!"